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Southwell Leaves News and Information from Southwell Minster Southwell Leaves News and Information from Southwell Minster August/September 2020 £2.50 Follow us on twitter @SouthwMinster www.southwellminster.org Contents… Southwell Minster’s Dragonfly Southwell Minster’s Dragonfly 2 Jill Lucas Subscription 2 mages of birds, animals and plants are frequently found in places of Welcome / Pause for Thought 3 I worship, from small village churches to imposing abbeys, cathedrals and minsters. They may have been chosen for their symbolism as in the From the Dean - Writing History 4 butterfly’s life cycle, where the larva symbolises life, its pupa death, and the Update on Chapter House Leaves project 4 adult insect resurrection. The subjects were rarely made from metal. Homecoming for weary souls 5 Bees, beetles, butterflies and flies were of religious significance and are not uncommon, but so far, the dragonfly appears to have no such position, Living at Three Miles per Hour 6 although it is found decorating the margins of psalters, missals and Books of Hours, for example the Lutterall Psalter dating from c. 1340. The 5-bar gate 7 Pre-dating the building of the Minster’s Chapter House (circa 1280) a God and the Coronavirus 8 vestibule linked the nave to an outside baptismal pool via a trumeau or gate. Bible Verses for Reflection 8 It is suggested that a pillar from this gate was moved at a later date to its present position between the Quire and the vestibule leading to the Chapter What if 2020 is the year we’ve been House. waiting for ? 9 Decorating the pillar is an iron carving, hinged on one side, of a so far unidentified creature. What are the Church’s priorities? 10 What is it and why is it here? The creature Father Hosam becomes Bishop Hosam 11 may be a representation of an Aeschnid nymph, an immature Hawker dragonfly, the Service Times for August and September 12 bulging eyes are clearly visible as is the thorax and the stylised segmented abdomen. Southwell Music Festival 13 Why is it here? A possible explanation lies in Lay Clerk in lockdown 13 the original position of the pillar viz. part of the trumeau leading to the baptismal pool. From the Canon Precentor 13 Dragonflies before maturity live their nymphal state in water which could Race, Identity & Faith 14 symbolise life. When the nymph is ready to Tribalism in the Media and Online 15 leave the water, it crawls up a suitable structure and then splits its case to emerge as Archaeology in the Residence Garden 16 a free flying mature insect. This could be Whose garden was this? 17 symbolic of a new life in Christ or of a new birth. News from Newark & Southwell Deanery 18 East Trent Online Life in Lockdown 19 Covid-19 Worldwide 20 Subscription Did you know... ? 21 If you or friends you may know would like to take out an annual subscription and receive copies by post please send details of your name, address and Confinement a la Francaise 22 telephone number with a cheque for £24:00, made out to Southwell Isabella’s Journal - highlights from a Cathedral Chapter, to Christine Kent, 16 Halloughton Road, Southwell, Notts, NG25 0LR. 9 year old’s lockdown diary 23 For more information please contact me on 01636 812750 or email: [email protected]. If you live in Southwell I will be happy to deliver your copies by hand and the annual cost will be £15:00. Christine Kent (on behalf of the editorial team) Front Cover credit: The empty nave by Tom Hislop Readers will see that this edition does not include the usual contacts list. If Join us on Facebook - you wish to contact a member of the clergy or have other urgent reasons for search for southwell-minster and click 'like' to contacting Minster staff please call 01636 812593. keep up to date with news and information. If you are interested in submitting an article for consideration for the October/November issue, please email your offering to [email protected] by 10th September 2020 . This magazine is produced and printed by Jubilate Communications CIC 2 Southwell Leaves August & September 2020 Welcome to the August/September edition of Southwell Leaves he doors of Southwell Minster are unlocked, but the ‘Year so organ music to reflect the meaning of the words is played at T of No Hugs’ continues. We are in the transition phase points during the service. As time goes by, you can email https:// between complete lockdown during the worst of the coronavirus www.southwellminster.org/worship/pew-news/ to read the pandemic and the full gamut of the Minster’s activities. As we go weekly Pew News and get up-to-date information about what is to press, the Minster is open from 11.00 am till 3.00pm each day, planned. and there is a shortened schedule of services. Many people have been delighted to return to live services, sitting on widely-spaced The magazine includes accounts of what happened during seats, while others are more comfortable to continue for now lockdown - from an English schoolgirl, from France and from an worshipping at online services – something that we continue for online medical conference. There’s a report from those who pray some time yet. Our cover photo of the empty nave suggests silently every Thursday. Two groups of rural parishes in the possibilities for the future. Welcome to this late-summer edition! neighbouring part of our diocese have described their church life during those restricted months. There are also articles about what First, there are things you won’t find in this edition. The list of can be learned from living through a pandemic: Tom Hislop and services stops on September 6th. Though there are hopes about Vincent Ashwin contribute their thoughts about the ecological what may start up again, we only wish to publicise events that will movement and the need to conserve and respect the natural definitely happen. There is no Contacts Page, as many team world. Jim Wellington refutes the theory that COVID-19 was a members will still be furloughed during August, and the Minster punishment from God. Office will only open during September, once everything is COVID- proof and it is safe for staff members to return. There are no The coronavirus especially hit those in living in poverty and in reports from Sacrista Prebend, the Music Foundation or the minority communities, and this coincided with world-wide Education Department, as their work will not resume for some demonstrations about racism. We publish articles by David time yet. Shannon and Hugh Middleton that ask what a Christian response to divisions in society should be. However, after nearly four months, there are services in the Minster again, and Dean Nicola reflects on this significant event in So there is plenty to think about, and we hope you enjoy this ‘From the Dean’ on page 4. We also print an abridged version of magazine. her sermon on July 5th, the first service for fifteen weeks. The medical and government advice is that there should be no singing, Vincent Ashwin Towards our Ecological Awareness 'Bishop John Robinson, in his book 'The New Reformation?', has this to say: We have got to relearn that 'the house of God' is primarily the world in which God lives, not the contractor's hut set up in the grounds . .' (Quoted by Dean Martyn Percy of Christ Church, Oxford in 'Reflections for Daily Prayer 2019/2020', Monday 6 July). Pause for Thought or the last few years there has been a Thought for the Week in the F Minster's Pew News. Here are two quotes from 2016. Discipleship Following Jesus does not mean slavishly copying his life. It means making his choice of life your own, starting from your own potential, and in the place where you find yourself. It means living for the values for which Jesus lived and died. Rule for a New Brother, Edited by Henri Nouwen (DLT 2nd edition, 1986), Section 2 Our inter-connectedness The ‘island illusion’ seduces us into believing ourselves to be self-sufficient. We know that the world consists of oceans, continents and islands but we are much less likely to reflect that, underneath the fluctuating water-levels, the world is actually just one single lump of rock. The continents and islands dominate our attention because they contribute very significantly to our identity, culture, language and sense of security. Not really surprising, then, that we can attach more importance to our island-independence than to the oneness of the bedrock beneath. …But isolationism breeds fear, while Jesus constantly assures us that perfect love casts out fear. From Margaret Silf, ‘Wayfaring’, Doubleday 2002, pp 23-4, 39 3 Southwell Leaves August & September 2020 From the Dean - Writing History n the day the Minster held its first service of public worship Yes, the Church has been fully O after ‘lockdown’, I asked Michael Tawn, our Deputy Head alive although the doors were Verger, to write history in the Service Register in case the locked; creative online Honorary Librarian or County Archivist in 2520 AD wonders what worship bringing people happened in the spring and early summer of the Year of Our Lord together even at a distance, 2020. He made an appropriately bold entry across a whole page. pastoral care, praying from It is now a permanent record inscribed in black registrar’s ink: our homes, support for the vulnerable in the community ‘The Cathedral was closed on 23rd March 2020 by the order of Her all showed we were not asleep.
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